Charlie Brooker
As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.Collection: Crazy
"Be Right Back," in which Hayley Atwell brings Domhnall Gleeson back from the dead using his social-media profile, sprang out of an unrelated conversation. Other stories you thrash away at for weeks and weeks.Collection: Media
In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.Collection: Writing
We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, "Oh, okay."Collection: Years
On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.Collection: Real
What is useful about when there is a sort of pull-out to reveal moment going on is that it actually focuses the mind when you're writing the earlier scenes because you're thinking 'right, how do I? I can only show this amount of the room... I can only show these characters from the waist up because they've all got robot legs!' it's a challenge so it keeps you engaged on some level.Collection: Character
I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.Collection: Thinking
I'm known as being a massive dweeb who's into video games and so on.Collection: Games
The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.Collection: Writing
Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].Collection: Mirrors
I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.Collection: Thinking
What are people going to expect when they sit down to watch a new episode of Black Mirror? And what you're going to expect is somebody with a translucent TV in a drone strike and a robot walking by... or frowning at a phone and going 'aaah! Oh no! I've just deleted my own leg!' or whatever. So I thought well, let's not do that.Collection: Mirrors
I could worry that I'm going to bleed to death, you know, from cutting my finger on a sandwich packet, you know, if I sort of open a sandwich.Collection: Cutting
My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.Collection: Kids
I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.Collection: Religious
[British television series] Hammer House of Horror. I used to really enjoy these one-off stories where often there would be an incredibly cruel twist. A good example is the episode with Burgess Meredith and there's a nuclear war and he drops his glasses. To this day, you can show that to anyone and they'll go "Bwrrrrrrrr!" You know, sort of wander away shuddering.Collection: War
Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.Collection: Children
You don't have the economy of scale of building a set once and casting once. You blow up the world, basically, at the end of each episode.Collection: Blow
I would say the thing you can still see in Black Mirror is that I was probably traumatized by the specter of nuclear war. I was born in 1971, and in the '80s I came to understand that I was inevitably going to be frazzled to death in the nuclear apocalypse.Collection: War
Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.Collection: Technology
I kept saying I want to do an episode that's set in the past, how do we do a period episode of Black Mirror? And simultaneously there was another idea we were thinking about and the two things sort of gelled and became San Junipero.Collection: Thinking
One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.Collection: Pain
Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.Collection: Technology